Opinion

Helen Seligman, Barkers Creek The world is in crisis. A crisis far broader and more dangerous than anything we’ve ever known. Let’s stop the mindless ping pong of left /right politics and behave like the intelligent adults that we are. Let’s work together to combat global warming now. There is no time to lose… perhaps…

Margaret Pell, Kyneton It is so disappointing and depressing that the Macedon Ranges Council feels that funding for the Kyneton Daffodil Festival does not fit their funding matrix and is therefore unable to fund it. The Daffodil Festival is such a success and I know of many people in Melbourne who immediately associate Kyneton with…

Chris Pearson, Kyneton Re your articles ‘Stepping up enforcement’ and ‘Monitoring the new road rule’ of August 21. In my experience, applying this rule can be hazardous when travelling on the Calder, particularly when traffic is near capacity. I have had three experiences when I have been required to slow down to 40 km/h from…

Karen O’Sullivan, president, KFNC Kyneton Football Netball Club is grateful for the support shown by the community as it struggles through another financial downturn. The club’s survival is critical for Kyneton and the surrounding districts as it is a vehicle for almost 400 young boys, girls, women and men to play an organised competitive sport,…

Wilma Johnson, Kyneton It is a sad day for Kyneton when our council decides the joy provided for the past 45 years by the hard-working committee of the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival is not worthy of recognition. Isn’t the welfare and wellbeing of the local community and a sense of civic pride the purpose…

Jean Sanders, Kyneton Congratulations to the Arts and Culture team at Macedon Ranges Shire Council for bringing a world-class tenor David Rogers-Smith to Kyneton to perform Pavarotti last week. What a magical show, who needs to travel to Melbourne?

Peter Henderson, Kyneton As a concerned resident, community member and recently elected board member of Kyneton and District Town Square Co-op, I am very concerned at the lack of attention and maintenance at the former Kyneton Primary School site. The students left in March this year and to my knowledge NO maintenance has been done…

Beth Higgins, Yandoit Harsh criticisms are often levelled at our V/Line (VicRail) services, although I have never found fault with them. In particular, on Tuesday August 21, returning from a doctor’s appointment, we found Southern Cross had large numbers of security officers due to an unfortunate incident. Seeing our age and dismay at our route…

Lynda Langridge, Tylden European wasps have been a huge problem where I live in Tylden. My neighbour and I have destroyed more than 90 nests in the last three seasons. They are hibernating now and very slow but I have found some huge ones, maybe one or two or maybe a dozen in some strange…

Ann Ferguson, David Farrow, Sarah Newsam, Julie Begg Our discussion group met recently in Castlemaine to discuss Drawdown, a book edited by Paul Hawken which, based on extensive research, presents 100 costed approaches judged to be the most effective ways for limiting global warming. Our discussion was broad-reaching, including the need to challenge core values…

Phillip Scoles, Castlemaine When we talk about ‘believers’ and ‘non believers’, what are we really talking about – science or religion? When our ‘believers’ put up the Californian bushfires as evidence of climate change it is obvious they really don’t get it. This is not evidence at all. Already the rumblings out of California suggest…

Trevor Scott, Castlemaine Hal Curwen-Walker (‘Malthusian scaremongering’, Opinions, August 28), says that the Californian bushfires are not evidence of climate change. Are over a thousand bushfires in NSW already this August, not enough evidence for you? Well-known American scientist James Hansen of NASA, testified before Congress in 1988 (i.e. 30 years ago!) that there was…